Santa Barbara, LA and beyond

welcome to another speedsquare update. After arriving in California and staying up all night playing yahtzee at Yoffy's house in LA we moved up the coast to Santa Barbara to our friend Andy Bowers place. Before moving on let me say how much we have appreciated these guys taking care of us...... the yahtzee, the fresh oranges, beer, fresh avocados, the yahtzee, internet connection, and the true Santa Barbara club experience from Andy. it has already made our time in California much fun. Susanne has also joined us and been a great help and supportive team member, helping us remember to do the stuff we sometimes forget and be an eye outside of the band. we told Eli to take a couple days off to himself and enjoy Cali since Susanne could take over some of the band support stuff. On Saturday morning we hit the Santa Barbara farmers market and did the best we have ever done busking. we made back some of the rations we lost on much gas and no busking in west Texas (it is pretty much desert)... later on in the day we played a barbecue that had been planned way before anyone knew speedsquare was going to be in town and were welcomed with open arms of generosity and learned a new "family game" called flip cup. i am hoping to have some footage soon of the east coast team working the west coast team in flip cup but i might wait until we are out of California to do that so they are still nice to us here. they fed us and hydrated us or maybe that is dehydrated us? not sure, but it was a success. we made more tips and sold more cd's.... we were too tired to play that night ( not sure why ) but we decided to rest. Sunday we hit the Santa Barbara beach with lots of people but slow funds so we moved to State street in downtown Santa Barbara where things really picked up and made for another nice day of busking. we have a couple of leads on further gigs in California. we also had an accordion player, free-style rapper, and drummer sit in with us at different times. after that Andy took us out for a parting drink and we hit the road back to yoffy's in LA. we are getting ready to hit 3rd Street and then Venice Beach today which are supposed to be great places for busking. wish us well
take care and stay tuned for the coming adventures of speedsquare...